Section II. Naval Clauses
Article 136
From the date of the coming into force of the present Treaty all Austro-Hungarian Warships, submarines included, are declared to be finally surrendered to the Principal Allied and Associated Powers.
All the monitors, torpedo boats and armed vessels of the Danube Flotilla will be surrendered to the Principal Allied and Associated Powers.
Austria will, however, have the right to maintain on the Danube for the use of the river police three patrol boats to be selected by the Commission referred to in Article 154 of the present Treaty.
Article 137
The Austro-Hungarian auxiliary cruisers and fleet auxiliaries enumerated below will be disarmed and treated as merchant ships:
Bosnia
Gablonz
Carolina
Africa
Tirol
Argentina
Lussin
Teodo
Nixe
Gigante
Dalmat
Persia
Prince Hohenlohe
Gastein
Helouan
Graf Wurmbrand
Pelikan
Herkules
Pola
Najade
Pluto
President Wilson (ex Kaiser Franz Joseph)
Trieste
Baron Bruck
Elizabet
Metcavich
Baron Call
Gaea
Cyclop
Vesta
Nymphe
Buffel
Article 138
All warships, including submarines, now under construction in Austrian ports, or in ports which previously belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, shall be broken up.
The work of breaking up these vessels will be commenced as soon as possible after the coming into force of the present Treaty.
Article 139
Articles, machinery and material arising from the breaking up of Austro-Hungarian warships of all kinds, whether surface vessels or submarines, may not be used except for purely industrial or commercial purposes.
They may not be sold or disposed of to foreign countries.
Article 140
The construction or acquisition of any submarine, even for commercial purposes, shall be forbidden in Austria.
Article 141
All arms, ammunition and other naval war material, including mines and torpedoes, which belonged to Austria-Hungary at the date of the signature of the Armistice of 3 November 1918, are declared to be finally surrendered to the Principal Allied and Associated Powers.
Article 142
Austria is held responsible for the delivery (Articles 136 and 141), the disarmament (Article 137), the demolition (Article 138), as well as the disposal (Article 137) and the use (Article 139) of the objects mentioned in the preceding Articles only so far as these remain in her own territory.
Article 143
During the three months following the coming into force of the present Treaty, the Austrian high-power wireless telegraphy station at Vienna shall not be used for the transmission of messages concerning naval, military or political questions of interest to Austria, or any State which has been allied to Austria-Hungary in the war, without the assent of the Principal Allied and Associated Powers. This station may be used for commercial purposes, but only under the supervision of the said Powers, who will decide the wave-length to be used.
During the same period Austria shall not build any more high-power wireless telegraphy stations in her own territory or that of Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria or Turkey.
Source: CMD400, Treaty of Peace between the Allied and Associated Powers and Austria together with the protocol and declarations annexed thereto signed at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, September 10, 1919, His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1919.
